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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Mother fed youngest child soup or broth in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDSOUP24H)

Data file: LSO2009-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1485
End: 1485
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
578G Did (NAME) drink or eat soup?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
MAFEDSOUP24H (V412C) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child clear broth or soup during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. This variable describes a characteristic of the mother rather than the child.

Although the question wording asks about foods given to a specific child during the previous day, responses relate to the mother, so all young children of the mother are coded the same way. If the mother reported she gave her youngest surviving child clear broth or soup in the previous day, all of her children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDSOUP24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank clear broth or soup during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDSOUP24H to determine whether the child drank clear broth or soup during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDSOUP24HX reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child clear broth or soup during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDSOUPWKD reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child clear broth or soup during the past week.

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var_concept.title Vocabulary
Foods fed child in past 24 hours Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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